Formation Resources
Find all the resources you need for ongoing discernment here
What are my next faithful steps?
✓ Tell others about Discovery Weekend and discernment (be a caller!)
✓ Share your good news about Jesus with someone and see how it goes
✓ Explore the TEAC grids mentioned below and share your reflections on them with your Rector, Vicar, HOC for continued discernment in community
✓ Read one or more of the gospels in their entirety
✓ Visit the Discovery Weekend resource page (you’re here! good job!)
✓ Pray the Daily Office on a regular basis and see how it goes
✓ Invite someone to church
✓ Do something you haven’t done before such as lead a Bible study, become a LEM or a LEV, lead the Daily Office, or ask other leaders in your parish how you might serve
✓ Take your journaling, art, and other materials home with you to continue reflecting and discerning individually
✓ Practice of the Five Marks of Mission of the Anglican Communion
Resources to help you try your next faithful steps
Scripture Reading
- Day by Day from Forward Movement (in English and Spanish)
- Bible Love podcast
- Enter the Bible Podcast
- Hitchhiking the Word
- D365 (in English and Spanish)
- Episcopal Church: Bible Studies That Work
- Estudios Bíblicos que iluminan
- Chapter, Verse, and Season podcast
Formation/Discernment
- EDOT Formation’s Pathways of Vocation Initiative
- TEAC Grids for Discernment (Theological Education in the Anglican Communion)
- Five Marks of Mission of the Anglican Communion
- EDOT Formation Micro-Courses
- Great brief article on how to lead a Bible study with youth that can be used with almost any age group
- Faith+Lead Courses (ELCA)
- Trinity Church Leadership Courses
- Signs of Grace: Sacraments Video Series (Forward Movement)
- Podcasts for Formation
Spiritual Practice
- Contemplative Prayer with CSI
- Incarnation Method of Prayer (self-guided course)
- Lectio Divina (self-guided course)
- Practice Guides
- Método de Oración Meditativa
Daily Office
- The BCP and Me podcast
- Explore the “Venite” app: a way to pray the Daily Office online. (Works in Spanish and English). Available as a website and as an app.
- Explore “Mission St. Clare”: Available as a website and as an app. Available in English and Spanish.
- Forward Movement Morning Prayer Podcast
- Evening Prayer podcast
- Compline podcast
Recommended Readings
- C. Andrew Doyle
- Ben Campbell Johnson, Hearing God’s Call
- Derek Olsen, Inwardly Digest: The Prayer Book as Guide to Spiritual Life
- Donald V. Romanik, Beyond the Baptismal Covenant: Transformational Lay Leadership for the Episcopal Church in the 21st Century
- Douglas M. Koskela, Calling and Clarity
- Elizabeth Liebert
- Evelyn Underhill, The Spiritual Life
- Frank Wade, Transforming Scripture
- Henri Nouwen, Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life
- Linda L. Grenz, Transforming Disciples
- Nancy L. Bieber, Decision Making & Spiritual Discernment: the Sacred Art of Finding Your Way
- Parker Palmer
- Phyllis Tickle
- Rowan Williams
- Sam Portaro, Transforming Vocation
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